Legal Issues for Startups
Issues covered include: commercial law, contracts and contracting, intellectual property strategy, legal issues in marketing, privacy, cybersecurity, data breach, start-up investment
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Description
Whether you are advising a start-up or you are the start-up, discover the legal issues you need to have on your radar and how to manage them. This gathering of experts from across a range of areas is not to be missed. Leave this seminar with a solid foundation in start-up legal issues from inception to success.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including
3 units in Professional Skills
1 unit in Practice Management
Chair: Tessa Hawthorn, Head of Legal & Operations, Startup Advisor, LUNA
9.00am to 9.45am: Contracting with Customers: A Practical Guide for Startups and their Advisors
- The importance of clearly documenting customer arrangements
- Key considerations when preparing and negotiating customer agreements
- Structuring customer contracts to accommodate growth and flexibility
- An explanation of key clauses to include (or be wary of) in customer contracts
Presented by Elyse Adams, Managing Associate, Co-Head of Allens Accelerate Startup Practice, Allens
9.45am to 10.30am: Selling it: The Legal Pitfalls of Marketing for Startups
- Marketing strategies for startups and the related legal issues and risks
- Promises, claims and forecasts: competition and consumer law issues and misleading and deceptive conduct pitfalls
- Unfair contract law concerns
Presented by Harriet Warlow-Shill, Principal, Tisher Liner FC Law
10.30am to 11.15am: Building an Intellectual Property Strategy
- Reframing intellectual property as a business tool
- What is an IP strategy and what might it cover?
- How can a strategic framework help startups drive sustainable value from their intangible assets?
- Tips for building and implementing an IP strategy for a startup business
Presented by Karen Hallenstein, Managing Principal, ipervescence
11.15am to 11.30am Morning Tea
11.30am to 12.15pm: Protection Without Over-Engineering: Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Breach Response Plans for Startups
- Privacy: why your turnover is both relevant and irrelevant
- Spam and Do Not Call Regulation: the basics
- Cybersecurity and data breach response plans: the ‘must haves’
- Managing regulatory risk allocation when you’re stuck with ‘take it or leave it’ contracts
Presented by David Kreltszheim, Special Counsel, Cornwalls
12.15pm to 12.45pm: Challenges Facing the Modern Australian Startup: Panel Discussion
A roundtable discussion of some of the most pressing legal issues facing startups and their legal counsel and how those challenges should be approached.
- What does being commercial mean for a startup?
- How legal work can help a startup
- How the wrong legal work with the right intention can hurt a startup
- War stories from startups: lessons for your practice or organisation
Kurt Falkenstein, Startup Lawyer, Coworking Owner, General Standards
Noam Greenberger, Practice Leader, LegalVision
Louis Zetlin, Senior Startup Lawyer, LUNA
Moderated by Tessa Hawthorn, Head of Legal & Operations, Startup Advisor, LUNA
12.45pm to 1.15pm: Early Stage Startup Investment
- Typical types of investors
- Convertible instruments
- Priced equity investments
Presented by Tessa Hawthorn, Head of Legal & Operations, Startup Advisor, LUNA
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
Parking Information
Parking is not included in your registration. Here are some options below. RACV City Club Car Park.